Clothes-pin.



PATBN'TED JUNE 28, 1904 A. F. PIOKBRT.

ULOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3 ,1904.

N0 MODEL.

Wiwwy Patented June 28, 1904.

PATENT OFFIUE.

AUGUSTUS F. PIOKERT, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

CLOTHES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,? 93, dated June28, 1904.

Application filed February 3, 1904:- Serial No. 191,880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS F. PIGKERT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved clothespin for securing clothes andother articles to a line, Wire, or rod, and more particularly to thatclass of clothes-pins having means to obviate any liability to becomeaccidentally detached from the line and further aid in securing fastwhen in position.

Another feature of the invention is to provide a clothes-pin that can beeconomically manufactured, strong, durable, and less liable to becomeinjured or broken, also when being detached or applied to the line therewill be no danger of the same tearing or injuring the most delicatematerial and will be very efficient in its operation.

To these ends my invention consists in the features and in theconstruction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, andparticularly pointed out in the claims following the description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, Wherein Figure 1 is aperspective view. Fig. 2 is an elevation with a line being shown intransverse section, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line 3 3 ofFig. '2.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates the body of the pin,constructed, preferably, of a single piece of material, in this instancewood, although it may be made of any suitable material, and having itsouter surface cut to form one or more plain faces 2, said body being ofthe uniform width throughout its entire length and bifurcated to formyieldable jaws or fingers 3 and having their opposite inner facescorrugated to form a plurality of notches f, the edges of which arerounded to present blunt ribs 5. The end, portions of the fingers 3 arebeveled at 6 to facilitate the entrance of the line between the fingersof the pin when forced into position on the clothes carried by the line.A longitudinal slot 7 is formed in each of the fingers 3 and extendsbeyond the crest of the crotch on the fingers, and slidably held in theslots 7 is a clasp 8, having a head 9 at one side of the pin and at theother side a bent portion to retain the clasp in the slots andterminating in a grip 10 to assist the moving of the clasp 8longitudinally of the pin. When the pin is to be used, it is necessaryto move the clasp 8 in the slots 7 in the direction of the upper portionof the pin beyond the fingers 3. Then place the pin over the clothes andpress down until the line, with the clothes thereon, enters the notchesA, causing the fingers 3 to spread according to the thickness of theclothes and line. The clasp 8 isthen moved toward the free ends of thefingers by the grip 10, thereby pressing the fingers 3 together, so asto clamp the fabric between the ribs 5, forming the notches 4, on theinner faces of the fingers, thus serving to securely fasten the pin tothe line and preventing the liability of the fingers yielding and theclothes carried thereby from Working out of the notches 4 on the innerfaces of the fingers by the unavoidable disturbance of the clothes inwindy weather. It is to be understood that by the particular arrangementof the pin having the notches 4: on the inner faces of the fingers andwhen fastened by the clasp to the line is capable of aforward-and-backward swinging movement to allow the clothes to movefreely in a direction to release the stress of the wind upon the same.To withdraw the clothes suspended on the line and to release the pin,move the clasp 8 in the slots 7 longitudinally of the pin from thefingers 3, releasing the same. Then pull upon the pin and the fingers 3will yield, thus allowing the clothes and the line to pass from thenotches 4, riding over the ribs 5 and the beveled portions 6 at the endsof the fingers of the pin, and the same will be released. The clothescan now be taken from the line at will.

I do not confine myself to the particular shape of the pin as heretoforepointed out, as it may be of any desired shape without departing fromthe scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A clothes-pin comprising a body portion having integral therewithyieldable fingers provided with slots each extending beyond the crest ofthe crotch of the fingers and a clasp extending entirely through the pinand slidably mounted in the slots.

2. A clothes-pin consisting of a block having a longitudinal open-endedslot to produce yieldable fingers and other longitudinal slotstransverse to the first-mentioned slot formed partially in the fingersand in the body of the pin at a point beyond the closed end of saidfirst slot, and a means movably arranged in the longitudinal slots tolimit the yielding of the fingers.

3. A clothes-pin comprising a body having yieldable sections integraltherewith and provided with beveled ends, said sections having on theirinner faces blunt ribs to form notches and further provided with slotseach extending beyond the crest of the crotch of the same, a claspextending entirely through the pin and slidably mounted in the slots anda grip carried thereby to move the clasp.

4. A clothes-pin comprising a body having a slot extending toward thehead thereof to form yieldable fingers integral therewith, the innerfaces of the fingers provided with notches,said fingers having slotseach of which extend beyond the crest of the crotch of the fingers,means extending entirely through the pin and guided by the slots tolimit the yielding of the fingers and means for moving the same.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

AUGUSTUS F. PICKERT. Witnesses:

J. J. LYNCH, H. J. SIMoNToN.

